Pedalpcb pastel

[Harry Klippton]

I assembled the PCB in January and just got around to finishing the enclosure. I'm not a fan of the offset footswitch but what are ya gonna do.

I made some rookie mistakes on this one from not having built many pedals lately. My text is a little too close to the pots so I had to use smaller knobs than I had wanted to. My decal crinkled real bad but I'm gonna live with it. After all, it's a thing to be stepped on. The graphic design is from a series of blank tapes from 1970 that I collect. I redrew the whole thing in inkscape manually.



I did some wacky series resistors to get to the odd values. I wrote them down but I don't have the post it note right now. I will update later, but they look like this


I only tested this out on my desktop amp to make sure it was working. I'm planning to spend some time with it tomorrow with a real amp. I'm excited to put this on my board though

 

[Erik S]

Looks awesome. I kinda like how the wrinkle looks like the bent corner of an old record or book jacket.

 

[Harry Klippton]

Looks awesome. I kinda like how the wrinkle looks like the bent corner of an old record or book jacket.

I agree. Here's a cassette with the same design and some worn corners

 

[OD is Glorious]

Thanks for the report. I am trying to build one now

 

[EisengesisFX]

Love the graphics, and I think you might be the first builder I've seen since joining the forums to pull off a three-resistor tenting! I also agree with @Erik S -- the crinkle is fitting with the natural wear of the source material of the tape packaging.

 

[Harry Klippton]

Love the graphics, and I think you might be the first builder I've seen since joining the forums to pull off a three-resistor tenting! I also agree with @Erik S -- the crinkle is fitting with the natural wear of the source material of the tape packaging.

I had never tented 3 resistors before this but it was better than some expensive order

 

[swelchy]

I started this one forever ago and never finished.... couldn't source the trannies... I ended up getting some SMD's but I've been on a pretty big hiatus on builds... Family & work super busy and my wife ended up having more cancer surgeries and radiation treatments the past few weeks.. I' have barely built one pedal since the holidays.

 

[Harry Klippton]

I started this one forever ago and never finished.... couldn't source the trannies... I ended up getting some SMD's but I've been on a pretty big hiatus on builds... Family & work super busy and my wife ended up having more cancer surgeries and radiation treatments the past few weeks.. I' have barely built one pedal since the holidays.

I feel you. I built 2 all of last year, and this is my only one so far this year. It's possible it'll be my only one

 

[Harry Klippton]

Ok for the 38.3k I used a 33k + 4.7k + 220R and for the 51k I used a 47k + 3.9k

 

[Bricksnbeatles]

That cassette design is dope AF, and your redraw of it is fantastic. Great build. Looking forward to hearing your thoughts after playing it some more

 

[Band of Dans]

I had never tented 3 resistors before this but it was better than some expensive order

I recently did the same and for the exact same reason. Sometimes you tolerate a little jank of it means the project gets done.

Nice build and art btw!